The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

A team of neuroscientists investigates communication pathways in the brain and predicts intelligence. A new study approach uses machine learning to improve our conceptual understanding of intelligence ...

A leading AI chatbot has passed a Turing Test more convincingly than a human, according to a new study. Participants in a blind test judged OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model, which powers the latest version of ...

The Brain Connectivity Model of Intelligence. Schematic illustration of selected brain connections that have been linked to intelligence differences across studies. Adapted from Hilger & Sporns, 2021 ...

In educational psychology, theories about how the brain processes information have long influenced teaching practices and curriculum development. One such influential framework is the PASS theory, ...

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

A new study reveals that the capacity for social reasoning in large language models, a trait similar to the human “theory of mind,” originates from an exceptionally small and specialized subset of the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As AI models become increasingly powerful and cost-effective, the critical question for ...

People increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for medical diagnoses because of how quickly and efficiently these tools can spot anomalies and warning signs in medical histories, X-rays and ...